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The bond of sympathy, like the artist's eye for beauty, may stretch across many divisions.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Reduced to the statistical permutations of genes, life became "nothing but" the marriage of chance and selection.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
The truth of the matter is no society, not even our severely secularized technocracy, can ever dispense with mystery and magical ritual.
The Making of the Counter Culture (1969)
Can those who believe the computer is "an embodiment of mind" really not tell the difference between so poorly a caricature and the true original?
The Gendered Atom (1999)
The macho is in the metaphors, not the phenomena.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal. ...Cells ...need to be "encouraged" to live.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
It tells us the world is... deserving of reverence.
Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Some Calvinist divines identified an "idol" as anything "feigned in the mind by imagination." There is a haunting similarity between such teachings and Galileo's bold attack upon what he called "secondary qualities" in nature.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
If we could assume the view of nonhuman nature, what passes for sane behavior in our social affairs might seem madness.
The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2001)
In a time when so many artists have learned to confabulate with extremes of horror and alienation, the most daring thing an artist can do is to fill a book, a gallery, or a theater with joy, hope, and beauty.
Women enter the sciences, but "womanliness"—those qualities that have always been stereotypically attributed to females—is not yet entirely welcome, whether it comes into the laboratory wearing pants or a skirt.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
The epidemic psychosis of our time is the lie of believing we have no ethical obligation to our planetary home.
The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2001)
If feminist psychology is correct, the very concept of scientific "objectivity" as a disciplined withdrawal of sympathy by the knower from the known, is a male separation anxiety writ large. Written, in fact, upon the entire universe.
The Gendered Atom (1999)
The joy of this quest is not in triumph over others, but in the search for the qualities we share with them and for our uniqueness, which raises us above all competition.
Science, in broad outline, can be divided into three parts: the study of the vast, the study of the tiny, and the study of life which... acts as audience to both the vast and the tiny.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Goethe wondered at what point our instruments might be creating what we think we see out there in the world. ...his question is still a good one. Every science of observation must take care not to get lost among its own artifacts.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Because girls are raised to specialize in a certain set of human characteristics, would they not, then, bring to science a different sensibility? Does that sensibility have the right to be represented in science—or, for that matter, in business, politics, law, or medicine?
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)